19-10-2012, 01:15 PM
Capacity Building Project for Orissa
dpr for orissa.pdf (Size: 979.76 KB / Downloads: 77)
Introduction
National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) has been approved by the Government of India
for implementation during the years 2003-2007 to lay foundation and provide
impetus to e-Governance throughout the Country.
The Plan advocates definition of institutional mechanisms and core policies for
managing e-governance initiatives across the Country in a cohesive manner and
entails that services, having high volume of citizen interactions, with major impact
on the national and regional economies or where the service-owners themselves
show readiness to optimize, be targeted as Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) at Center,
State and Integrated Service levels.
Further, by providing appropriate weightage to quality and speed of optimization
and by utilizing full potential of private sector involvement, NeGP aims at creating
a citizen-centric and business-centric environment for Governance. The guidelines
issued by Department of India in this regard require institutional strengthening to
be undertaken at State level as well as Departmental level.
State Level: This capacity building would be at a program level and would provide
overall direction, standardization and consistency through program management of
the e-Governance initiatives in the State. The augmented capacity would function
as a permanent advisory and monitoring body to the State Government / NeGP
State Apex Committee (under chairpersonship of Chief Secretary) in undertaking
various e-Governance programs. The e-Governance initiatives for the State is
proposed to be designed, developed and monitored at the State level by a
dedicated body called State e-Governance Mission Team (SeMT).
Readiness to use ICT
In Orissa, more and more citizens are having access to technology and are also
becoming capable of availing various benefits from it. A number of Government
and Private Educational Institutions across the State are offering a variety of
courses in ICT, including various Graduate level courses and Post Graduate courses
such as M.Tech and MCA. Each year, more than 15,000 Engineers & MCAs and 3000
MBAs successfully complete their courses from various Institutes across the State.
Orissa Computer Application Centre (OCAC) has been designated as the
Directorate of the Information Technology Department and plays an important role
in training Government Officials, as well as ordinary students.
Various Training programs conducted by OCAC include a course in IT Basics for
Government Officials, Skill Development Program (CAD) for Engineers and a number
of courses, such as Networking Program, DOECC Accredited Programs and Japanese
Language Program, for Students. OCAC also has 2 Facility Centers at Berhampur
and Rourkela with requisite IT hardware.
Core Policies
In order to manage all e-governance initiatives in a cohesive and efficient manner,
a comprehensive policy-framework needs to be formulated at State level. This
framework could contain, but not limited to, the following policies:
Funding Strategies & Business Models
Human Resource Development & Management Policies
Data & Content Management Policies
Metadata Framework Standards
Specifications for Identification, Classification & Management of Govt. Data
Security Legislations
Policies for Front End
Policies for Middleware
Policies for Back End & Department Automation
Policies for Integrated Services
Process Reengineering Policies & Frameworks
Policies for Geographic Information Systems
Policies for Employment Generation through e-Governance
Electronic Payment Mechanism Policies
Policies for Prioritization of Project Interventions
Core Infrastructure
OSWAN
Uniform Connectivity all across would be the most essential part of the proposed e-
Governance Architecture of Orissa and it is necessary that Orissa State Wide Area
Network or OSWAN reaches upto the Village-level at the earliest.
State Government has already obtained approval from the Central Government to
establish the SWAN and 2 Mbps Data-Link from the Secretariat to the Districts has
already been established. The plan is to extend the reach of this SWAN to Sub-
Divisions, Blocks and Tehsils in partnership with BSNL (with OFC backbone).
However, it is necessary that uniform connectivity is established across the State
(upto the Villages) to provide various facilities, such as VOIP, Video Conferencing,
Teleconference, Fax, Web Enabled Applications and WAN Based Applications, to
Citizens as well as Government Employees.
In order to effectively manage and maintain this SWAN, the State Network
Management Center should be established in Bhubaneswar and District Network
Management Stations should be established at all the 30 District Headquarters
across the State.
These establishments should be staffed with Network Administrators and Engineers
under the jurisdiction of Department of IT or the Nodal Agency for e-Governance in
the State and should be responsible for efficiently maintaining and monitoring
network-segments corresponding to their regions on 24 x 7 basis to ensure
connectivity to Stakeholders across the State.